I think it's pretty clear at this point Vika should be playing a pretty minimal schedule. I would have included Dubai, but I think it's too risky with her already sitting on a double fine this year, Stuttgart looks the best of the rest of the options. She'd be able to get a late wildcard from Dubai if she wanted to play it anyway.

Brisbane
AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Doha
(Dubai?)
Indian Wells
Miami
(Stuttgart?)
Madrid
Rome
French Open
Birmingham
Wimbledon
Montréal
Cincinnati
US Open
Tokyo
Beijing

It's very hard to say. I think she could use a grass-court warm-up and she probably won't be winning RG anyway, so Birmingham makes sense. I don't really like Stuttgart or Dubai because Doha/Dubai tires her out early in the year but Stuttgart/Madrid/Rome is a little bit busy for the clay season. Also, I'd much prefer Stanford to Montréal, but I also hope she doesn't go to this idiotic Wuhan event . Even though Tokyo seems cursed, I think it makes sense to play (even so soon after the US Open) because it's slightly less competition than Wuhan with better conditions and gives her a week of rest before Beijing. Also, if she doesn't play Wuhan I think Linz or Osaka could be smart in case something like this year happens in the fall.

Ha I am probably going to Birmingham next year, but aside from a purely selfish point of view I don't think she should play it. It's the week after French Open, from 2015 it's probably recommendable when the grass season gets extended by a week, but next year that seems an awful lot of tennis to be playing in a short period of time.

I removed Wuhan from the schedule on the basis of her comments today. I think USO to Asia in a couple of weeks is too quick a turnaround.

I wish they'd put a week between Moscow and YEC then. It is too quick of a turnaround, but playing only one event in the fall seems a bit too little. But it comes down to more time to refresh during the year or during the off season.

It's even worse next year when the YEC is in Singapore. Who is going to want to play in Europe the week before Singapore? In order to play something like Linz she would have to go Beijing - Linz - week off - Singapore. That doesn't sound very feasible either.

She's not playing Linz or Luxembourg this year, why would she play there next year?

I think she will keep her schedule light again and I will probably be out of luck again. Going to Dubai, Stuttgart & Eastbourne next year and I bet she won't play neither of them

She basically has to play one of these, or at least commit to one of them. According to spiceboy they have changed the premier 700 commitment rule from next year and now any 2 count. But most of these are on terrible weeks. Almost certainly one will be Brisbane. Then your left with these.

Sydney - I don't see her playing both weeks going into AO.
Paris - The week after AO. No thanks.
Dubai - Week after Doha. The fact she's late withdrawn last 2 years is the main off putting thing.
Charleston - No chance.
Stuttgart - The best place in the calendar outside of Brisbane of any of these.
Birmingham - The week after FO.
Eastbourne - The week before Wimbledon.
Stanford - The week before Montreal, Cincinnati. Hard to see her playing 3 weeks in a row in build up to USO.
New Haven - No chance.
Tokyo - A week after USO. She seems to like it here. But she's got ill here the last 2 years, hard to see her playing.
Moscow - The week before Singapore.

I think from 2015 she'd be better off playing Birmingham (which is nowhere near as nice as Eastbourne incidentally, but alas it is what it is).

The only good options feel like Dubai and Stuttgart.

I actually thought she'd enter Monterrey again after saying she'd love to go there after this year fell through. But they've already announced Ivanovic and Wozniacki, so it seems unlikely.

It's even worse next year when the YEC is in Singapore. Who is going to want to play in Europe the week before Singapore? In order to play something like Linz she would have to go Beijing - Linz - week off - Singapore. That doesn't sound very feasible either.

Well she'll probably go back home anyway rather than stay in Asia for 2+ weeks between Beijing and YEC.

^^I think there's a good chance of Dubai OR Stuttgart next year…

Also, what are the rules about Premier 5s? Does she have to play 4/5?

Doha -obviously.
Rome - makes sense.
Montreal - it's not really ideal right before Cincinnati but before than frickin Wuhan.
Cincinnati - obviously.
Wuhan - I bet she'll play but I don't think she should.

For regular Premiers, I still feel that Stanford and Tokyo (if not the Premier she doesn't play the Premier 5s after) seem reasonable but it is a tough schedule.

It sounds quite reasonable schedule. Surely it is better to concentrate certain big tournaments rather than "vulturing" titles in smaller tournaments like some TF experts might call it.
In this year Vika was planning to play also in Dubai and Monterrey, but as we know she had to skip those events. In 2014 there will be an option to play in Wuhan instead of Tokyo.
Winning a title in Eastbourne would be nice too, but I don't want to get greedy if it risks Vika's far more important chances in Wimbledon.
I just hope that there will no more serious injuries to mess up Vika's 2014 tour schedule.

You have to play 4 of the Premier 5s and can't not commit to the one you didn't commit to last year. So she must commit to Montreal next year. I don't think she should play Wuhan either.

That is so ridiculous . Then she'll definitely play Montréal and not Wuhan I guess. So then yeah, I do think she should plan on playing Linz/Osaka then withdraw if she goes deep in Beijing, but we'll have to see I guess .

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Monterrey clearly has quite a bit of money but it really is a bizarre choice . If she's playing that week it may as well be in Charleston to get rid of one of the Premier commitments and that field usually isn't super tough.